Thoughts on Shoveling Out My Car Again This Morning

Napoleon

Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

‘What is the world, O soldiers?
It is I:
I, this incessant snow,
This northern sky;
Soldiers, this solitude
Through which we go
Is I.’

Enough with the snow, already.

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